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She is a Coach &amp; has vast experience in Learning &amp; Leadership development, Culture Transformations, Development centers, Competency Mapping, Career progression frameworks and Creating Disruption in Learning for Modern Day Learners, for building organizational agility.<\/p>\n<p>In L&amp;T Technology Service, Sonal\u2019s role is to Lead leadership and people capability across levels to support organizational effectiveness and business rigor. Her key role is to build the talent capital in alignment with the organization\u2019s strategic intent. She heads \u00a0two functions : Organisation Development which works along with the CEO &amp; CXO\u2019s to build a Leadership pipeline, Succession Planning and Culture and Organisation Effectiveness, which is \u00a0responsible for strategizing Learning &amp; Development needs for the organization to ensure capability building &amp; organisation Effectiveness. \u00a0She also heads \u00a0the Diversity &amp; Inclusion Portfolio for the organisation .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards &amp; Honours:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elevated L&amp;T Technology Services Limited to <strong>#1 position amongst 71 winners at ATD BEST Award<\/strong> 2021 . ( erstwhile ASTD\u00a0 American Society for Training &amp; Development) by competing \u00a0against 3000 global organisations for driving business excellence through talent\u00a0 development strategy by championing industry leading initiatives in leadership &amp; organizational development.<\/li>\n<li>Essayed a success story by marking presence in India for Leadership Development Practices by being <strong>felicitated by Former President of India Pranab Mukherjee<\/strong> for driving Business Excellence through Talent Development at LTTS<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winners of SHRM HR Excellence Award 2020<\/strong> for <strong>Excellence in Developing Leaders of Tomorrow<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Felicitated by GPTW award on \u201c Creating\u00a0 Leadership factory\u201d <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Top 6 organisations in <strong>&#8220;Global Leadership Award&#8221;<\/strong> by <strong>Dale Carnegie<\/strong> Book -honor issuer Dale Carnegie<\/li>\n<li>Top 100 Global Training &amp; Development minds &#8211; ET Now<\/li>\n<li>Asia Pacific Award &#8211; Excellence in Learning &amp; Development<\/li>\n<li>Golden Globe Tigers Awards &#8211; World HRD Congress &#8211; Best Coaching Intervention<\/li>\n<li>Women Leadership Award &#8211; Women Super Achiever<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Professional Accreditations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Certified Culture Practioner (LSI,GSI &amp; OCI)\u2013 Human Synergistics International-USA<\/li>\n<li>Certified OD Consultant \u2013 National Training Laboratories \u2013 USA<\/li>\n<li>Coaching \u2013 ICF Accredited<\/li>\n<li>Hogan Assessment certification<\/li>\n<li>Certified DISC Practitioner &#8211; Thomas International Ltd, UK<\/li>\n<li>Certified on HJA (Human Job Benchmarking) &#8211; Thomas International Ltd, UK<\/li>\n<li>Certified Assessment Center Analyst- CAMI\u2013 Middle Earth Consultants UK<\/li>\n<li>Certified Crucial conversations Facilitator \u2013 Vital Smarts &#8211; USA<\/li>\n<li>Certified Training Need Analysis- Langevin Learning Services, USA<\/li>\n<li>Certified Training Evaluation &amp; ROI (5 Levels) &#8211; Langevin Learning Services, USA<\/li>\n<li>Certified Competency Mapping &#8211; Middle Earth Consultant<\/li>\n<li>Certified &#8211; Corporate Coach U \u2013 UK<\/li>\n<li>Change Management Certification &#8211; Who Moved My Cheese (Awareness + Skill + Tools) &#8211; Spencer &amp; Johnson Partners USA<\/li>\n<li>ISABS &#8211; BLHP &amp; ALHP program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4543,"menu_order":0,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[21],"class_list":["post-4542","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-speakers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sonal Vaidya - 5th Edition of ET Now HR Transformation Summit 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/hr-transformation\/2025\/new-delhi\/team\/sonal-vaidya\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sonal Vaidya - 5th Edition of ET Now HR Transformation Summit 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sonal comes with an academic background in Organisation Development and a rich 25 + years of diverse work experience that spans across industries &amp; countries. 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